ENG-3029 Modern European Literature

The course is designed to offer students a broader cultural approach to literature in the age of globalization. Texts by English, German, Spanish, French, Czech, Polish, and other writers are studied in English translation. The course involves the comparative study of the works or representative Modern European writers from Western and Eastern Europe like Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Lorca, Camus, Kafka, Kundera, Gombrowicz, Milosz, and others. Students will focus on major intellectual themes and debates that decisively shaped 20th century European culture, and which still define the world today.